Creatine and Mental Health
Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Podcast
David J Puder
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Psychiatry & Psychotherapy, Dr. David Puder hosts a deep dive with experts Nicholas Fabiano, MD, Brandon Luu, MD, Joshua Mangunsong, MS3, and Liam Browning, MS4 into the exciting potential of creatine supplementation for mental health and cognitive enhancement. They explore cutting-edge research on how creatine can improve mood disorders, including depression and anxiety, enhance cognitive functions such as memory, attention, and reasoning, and support brain metabolism through its role in ATP regeneration. The episode also reviews clinical trials demonstrating creatine’s effectiveness in psychiatric disorders, optimal dosing strategies, and its safety profile. Listen to learn how creatine may revolutionize treatment options in psychiatry.
By listening to this episode, you can earn 1.5 Psychiatry CME Credits.
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| 0:00.0 | Music |
| 0:14.0 | Alright, welcome back to the podcast. I am joined today with four guests. We've been working |
| 0:19.2 | on creatine for depression mood and we have right now, it looks to be a 45, 48-page document, |
| 0:29.6 | kind of breaking down different studies. |
| 0:31.4 | This may be very new to you, the thought that creatine monohydrate, which is normally |
| 0:35.0 | thought of something you would give to someone training and sport, increased strength, that |
| 0:41.2 | it could be used for the brain and used for depression. |
| 0:44.9 | This may be very new for you, but that's why we're going to go through study by |
| 0:48.4 | study. And I've compiled my little team of amazing experts here. |
| 0:54.0 | Many experts. It's so new to the field. I don't think you could probably find |
| 0:58.0 | like the expert or, you know, so it's like you almost want to look at this study |
| 1:02.4 | by study and kind of form your own decision. We have Joshua Mangoon song and we have Liam Browning, Brandon Lu and Nicholas Fabiano. |
| 1:13.5 | Nicholas was on exercise with me before Liam spent on a number of episodes, adverse childhood |
| 1:21.1 | experiences, microdosing, exercise. |
| 1:25.4 | And then branded, you were on, |
| 1:28.2 | this is your first one, Brandon? |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:31.7 | So, Brandon is an internal medicine doctor |
| 1:34.2 | or soon to be internal medicine. |
| 1:36.8 | Highly active on Twitter has a lot of really good, |
| 1:40.8 | short, pithy summaries of research studies that are new and novel and that's |
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